ACE FREHLY
Ace’s solo album is widely considered the best of the KISS solo LP’s. (well, John Denver’s sappy music was better than the other three solo KISS LP’s!)
You have to give Ace credit for really letting his talent shine through. This looks like a project he spent a …

This is probably one of the most heartbreaking, tear-wrenching songs I have ever heard. It is based on a true story, and one of Tay’s rare songs that doesn’t sing about boys and one-sided love. It tells of a young mother’s groundbreaking sorrow of losing her beloved youngest son …

Going To Stockton is a song by Sledding With Tigers and the third track on their third release, The Arrested Cats. Opening up with a drawn out acoustic guitar chord, the vocals quickly come into the mix and return the sound to a slightly more energetic feel in comparison …

We Are the Night by The Chemical Brothers has a good cover CD. There are 2 palms facing side by side on the cover CD and the bluish coloring design is so gorgeous. And this CD has some nice songs too. If you love The Chemical Romance, …

Harvester Of Sorrow, the sixth track off of And Justice For All, is a track which I initially never liked very much but now have come to gain at least a bit more appreciation for the track. I think that the main problem I had with Harvester Of Sorrow …

Gypsy Blood, originally released in 1980, is the second album by the Scottish post-punk group Doll By Doll and one the Great Lost Rock Albums few people have ever heard of, much less heard. Doll By Doll’s biggest asset was lead singer Jackie Leven, whose soaring, swooping vocals could …

Courtesy of The Red White and Blue is one of several songs that came out after 911. It is sung by Toby Keith. Having spent twelve years in the Army this song has an extra special meaning to me. It makes you feel proud to be an American first …

King For A Day is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Nimrod. The song opens up with a very humorous sounding rhythm due to the use of a trumpet and a very moving bass line, you’d have to hear it to understand what I’m trying …

This guitar is a great guitar for the price. The list price is $850, but it plays among guitars worth twice as much. I own the cream white color of this guitar, and I must say, and …

My fince bought me this Madonna CD. We were malling that day back in the Philippines, it was this November 21, 2008. Since then I started listening to the CD, for a fact that I am a number one Madonna fan. I never get tired listening to …

Wow what can I say this Kill at Will album by Ice Cube was very violent! He was very pissed, and he spoke his mind on this album. Kill at Will has very explicit lyrics, and he is very violent on the album. This is a great album to …

This album was one of the first albums by the Cure that I listened to. It was quite a long time ago. It took place, in fact, probably in the year when this album was released. And then I loved these songs a lot. They seemed magic and otherworldly. …

Overview —“ Hitchin’ A Ride, the first music video released by Green Day for their album Nimrod is a music video that focuses primarily on a performance video with the band playing the song in a theater. To be honest, I thought Nimrod had some pretty good songs on …

Stuck With Me is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Insomniac. Right from the start, you certainly get hit with that traditional Green Day sound of distorted power chords played in a repetitive structure. I don’t mean for this description to sound unpleasant or anything, …

In 1998, a lone musician was featured on the soundtrack for the movie “Good Will Hunting”. Several songs were featured by this artist in the movie, including the ending theme, “Miss Misery”. That artist was Elliott Smith.
Elliott was known for his depression and drug abuse, and that melancholy reflected …

This is one solid CD. I am a fan of this band and I have been for a while now. Their previous CD was amazing and I had high expectations for this one. I was right. This CD was everything I had hoped it would be. The CD cover …

Let’s all be real, only teens and fangirls went crazy for One Direction. In reality, nobody takes their music seriously. They have been releasing numerous radio-candy songs but they’re all bad in quality. Not that radio-candy songs are automatically bad (see Katy Perry), but their songs have been tryhard …

Unfortunately the excellent Neuropa album “The Blitz”, with its (admittedly fairly obvious) World War 2 type plane design on the front, is not easily obtainable in physical form in the United Kingdom, although it is offered by Amazon in individual track form as MP3 downloads. This is rather a …

There are so many female artists out there these days that it can be very difficult deciding what albums are worth buying and what albums are ultimately not worth the time or the money. I like trying out very random new musical artists just to see if they are …

James Brown is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their record of the same name. Opening up with a hanging guitar chord playing alongside with a simple drum rhythm, James Brown then launches into the first verse with the vocals really leading the assault. Though the …

Hustling (Life On The Nickel) is a song by Foster The People which appears on their debut record Torches. The track opens up with an unconventional opening comprised of an electronic intro before other instrumentation joins in the track and a rhythm is actually established. Though the band takes …

What Would I Want? Sky is a song by Animal Collective and the second track on their EP Fall Be Kid. Opening up instrumentally, vocals do enter the mix but they are more of hums rather than actual lyrics which don’t enter the song until this instrumental section has …

With Teeth is the title track of an album by Nine Inch Nails. With Teeth opens up with some brief noise before leading to a drum rhythm which sound somewhat awkward and then a synthesizer being played over this and finally a distorted guitar playing a bit of a …

The band was formed in the city of Orebro in Sweden by Joel Fornbrant (vocals), Anders Bertilsson (guitar), Daniel Schrider (guitarist) , Oskar Palsson (bass), and Anders Jakobson (drums). A mix of personnel all-star of the genre of Thrash, DeathMetal, and Grindcore. They then released, debut album, The Contaminated …

Overview —“ After watching the extremely emotional and powerful music video for Turn The Page, part of me wanted to watch a video that was like that and had the same effect on me and part of me wanted a fun video just to balance it out. On Whiskey …

Reason to Believe is a song about someone being so in love with someone else that he wants to believe in that person no matter how many lies they have told nor how much the other person breaks their heart. Rod Stewart has several versions of the song, every …

Willie Nelson does the song Always on My Mind. It is a beautiful love song. Where the guy is trying to win back his girl. He basically is telling her he is sorry that he did not realize some of the things he did wrong but that he …

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Following the release of their EP Continued Silence, Imagine Dragons followed up on a strong note with their full length album Night Visions. The album, containing work featured on their previous EP as well as some brand new tracks heard for the first time on Night Visions, is packed …

Three Angels is a track by Bob Dylan which appears on New Morning. Like the rest of New Morning, I really don’t find this track anything all that special and it surprises me that it’s by the same artist who wrote albums like Blonde On Blonde, Bringing It All …

Electronic keyboards are good fun, we decided to invest in one and started looking closely at all the keyboards advertised on the Amazon website. We found the Yamaha YTP200 a reasonably priced keyboard at £56
The whole family are music lovers and keyboard music would be great to use for …

This is another album that was released after the death of J Dilla. This will be his final album, and will actually feature lyrics instead of just instrumentals. The CD guests include appearances by Common, J. Rocc, Guilty Simpson, Busta Rhymes, and many other underground and mainstream rappers. Dilla …

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is one of the tracks from the White Album which I would define as being simply one of the most upbeat tracks throughout the entire record and one of the most cheerful sounding Beatles’ tracks which I’ve ever heard. Right from this description I would be assuming …

Overview —“ Master Of Reality, Black Sabbath’s third shows the band continuing on with the extremely innovative metal sound that they developed on their self titled record and on Paranoid, but now they’re also including more melodic and acoustic songs, a sign of musical development. And for anyone thinking, …

This is the deepest song Sugarland has ever come out with. And I say this because it reminds me of the relationship with me and mother and me trying to grow up too quickly. I live four hours away from my mother and it makes me wish that I …

The Line Begins To Blur is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their record With Teeth. This song begins with a heavy industrial feel to it thanks to a very heavy synthesizer rhythm which Reznor quickly comes in over and screams over. Like many of the …

Diorama is Silverchair’s fourth album and when released also the most calm album.
After Neon Ballroom’s succes, the power-trio released Diorama.Altough the album still quite slow, some songs like “One Way Mule” and “The Lever” still carry the band’s hard side.When it was released, after listening to it, at first …

When You Say Nothing At All is the best song that Allison Krauss ever recorded, in my opinion. It is the most amazing love song that you will ever hear. From lyrics to the beat, it is the most romantic song I can think of. She is telling her …

My journey to discovering the all-out death metal assault that is DEICIDE was a long and winding one.. I’ll cut it short and just say that when i was pretty young i was introduced to AC/DC, and from there was always searching for the next heaviest thing and went …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Girl
Album: Destiny Fulfilled
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Bryan Barber
Finally, a Destiny’s Child song with a real positive message that is not deceiving nor manipulative, plus there’s a very original and creative music video to go along with. Wow, I am impressed. “Girl” is the third single and music …

The Akai MPC 2000xl sampler is one of the best pieces of equipment available on the music production scene. This piece of equipment is used by most of the top producers especially in the rap/hip-hop genre.
I have used this machine now for a couple of years and it has …

‘Unwritten’ is the most my favorite song from Natasha Beddingfield. Everytime I listen this song, my feeling always happy and feel fresh to doing everything. This is a song that very good to declare as a happy spirit theme song for me.
The lyrics is very match with the music, …

In 1997, Michael O Domhnaill and Windham Hill Records produced “Celtic Christmas III: A Windham Hill Sampler.” The compilation includes twelve favorites from previous Celtic Christmas compositions, such as “The Wexford Carol,” “Circle of Joy,” “A Raven in the Snow,” and “Coinnle an Linoh Losa.” The soothing melodies and …

Starlight is a track by Muse which appears on Black Holes And Revelations. Compared to most of the other tracks on this record, I suppose that I would call Starlight the most mainstream or at least most accessible track on the album. The structure of the track is very …

If you know the song Summertime Blues originally by Eddie Cochran which you probably do. Then you might know that it is possibly one of the most covered song of all time almost every band cover their own version of it wheter it be country,rock or even by Progressive …

I was at the local record store, browsing through the Metal section looking for another amazing band to add to my collection. Being a huge fan of bands that push the envelope and cross genres and try all together new things, I focused on Meshuggah. Literally everyone I have …

During the late nineties, there was a bit of a revival of the more melodic progressive rock that had been popular in the mid to late eighties. While the eighties saw a very stripped down kind of sound, with a heavy emphasis on melodic guitar lines and keyboard sounds, …

“Caution: If you are a soulless men sincere, you are obliged to listen to this soundtrack ” .. (sorry, just kidding). Almost the entire film shows the 300 scene which is very hard and cruel. So also with the music there is in this soundtrack. At the beginning of …

I was searching for a positive affirmation quotes on the net when I bump on this lyrics. Then I remember from reading the lyrics that I have heard this song playing as the background song for NBA Playoffs. In addition, I was right; it is the official song for …

Overview —“ The Unnamed Feeling, the third music video in promotion of St. Anger, is a music video which focuses on various people experiencing a certain emotion or feeling. As with most Metallica videos, the music video shifts between a performance of the song and then the story to …

Essplode is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their second album, Danse Manatee. Opening up with a more traditional sound, I’m somewhat reassured by this and hope that the band doesn’t push the song to a dissonant extreme as they’ve done already with two tracks on the …